Imperial Stormtrooper Corp image - Rise of the Mandalorians mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
The Empire has fallen and a New Republic is born out of the conflict. But in the ashes of civil war, yet another life stirs...
Imperial Stormtrooper Corp
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Showcasing all new troopers, their animations and "snow" variants. Welcome to the corp!
Its...so...beautiful...
Haha thanks :)
DONT FORGET TO VOTE FOR ROTM FOR MOTY AWARDS BECAUSE HE FINALLY RETURNED THIS YEAR :D
Yes, please do :)
Done it, Mando'a ;)
Woo! This mod deserves it! Your awesome bro! ;)
These are the works of art which demonstrate the hand of a true master craftsman!
Thank you very much!
Ooohhh...this looks like it's practically Battlefront quality. If not better.
It's the little details like this that really make your mod more than fun.
EDIT 1: Out of curiosity, will the New Republic be getting their rifle rather than the pistol?
I'm glad you think so :)
Yes, they will get rifles. NR infantry are actually going to change quite a bit. Ironic that you mention battlefront...as that's what I am basing them off of.
In a nutshell, NR infantry will look like the Endor or Hoth soldiers (depending on what planet type) and they will be armed with rifles. Then, Rebel Vanguard soldiers will look like as they do in Battlefront (with that unique, Rebel-style helmet from A new Hope, etc) and will be armed with pistols and Plex launchers. Finally, NR Marines will look as they do on the Wiki that I linked to in one of the more recent news posts (they were called NR heavy troopers or something...)
Oohh...Nice. It's good to know that the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant won't be charging into battle with pistols...
Well, technically the weapon that the Reb soldiers had is a rifle but it's comparable to bringing a .22 to a firefight. Yes, technically it can kill somebody...but mostly it just makes your enemies laugh.
Which is why I don't get how they put a up a fight against the Empire.
They steal/modify a lot of Imperial tech. The Emperor was drunk on his own hubris anyway; his "overconfidence was his undoing," after all. He made a lot of stupid mistakes because he believed that everyone was beneath and inferior to himself. Ironically, that was true in most cases but because he let that notion go to his head, he got careless and allowed his most powerful adversary (Luke) within striking distance. He gambled and lost.
I don't necessarily mean with regards to the big players at the top. More with the grunts and the individuals at the bottom. It seems that the common theme is that rebel infantry and other forces are at least equal to or superior to Imperial infantry and the Stormtrooper Corps.
Depends on which part of the Storm Trooper Corp. The 501st could wipe away just about any resistance they encounter, even putting up a fair fight against Mandalorians. Don't forget that the bulk of the 501st, even in Imperial times, was comprised of Mandalorian clones. I don't know if that distinction carried on after the fall of the Empire but even if it didn't, the 501st still has a strong tradition of only admitting the best of the best.
Now the Nova Trooper sections are more comparable to Green Beret or other elite task forces. They aren't necessarily invincible but they are more a force to be reckoned with than stock troopers and are generally better armed.
Stock Storm Troopers are just that...stock. They are lightly armed and have minimal training, with some exceptions. Against foes like the Mandalorians, they would likely not stand a chance. However, they usually have the upper hand against Rebellion troopers because such a force admitted anyone and everyone who was willing and able to fight; they were a guerrilla army and so, had little to no training and whatever weapons they could afford or salvage. This is where the Emperor's hubris comes into play...he didn't see the need for anything better than "expendable" soldiers because he didn't consider the Rebellion a real threat.
This evolved by the time of the New Republic because at this point, “Rebel” troops were an actual, organized army with trained and better equipped soldiers. Rather than Stormies usually having the upper hand, it was generally the NR troopers that did.
Time for lore battle! XD
From what I know the Stormtrooper Corps itself is already a somewhat elite force in the imperial military, with the imperial army (with uniforms like the AT-ST drivers on endor) forming the mass of imperial soldiers.
It's comparable to the US Marines and Army today, with the only difference that the Stormtroopers are not bound to the navy in any way.
The reason we see mostly Stormies in the movies is that the rank-and-file Imperial Army troops are mostly used for guarding (unimportant) imperial worlds and that important leaders such as Vader are of course accompanied by the Empire's elite shock troops.
However the term "elite" can only be used here relatively loosely, because the empire is just such a freaking huge organisation and as such there are a lot of Stormtroopers, who to some degree still differ in training and equipment.
And we shall not forget it's a hollywood movie and of course the bad guys miss the heroes all the time. ;)
Most of this does however only apply to the time before the Emperor's death and the foundation of the New Republic.
Hmm... I wouldn't say that comparing Marines vs Army to this is entirely fair. Army is not < Marine Corp per se, both just serve different purposes within the military structure.
I would say that maybe comparing it to like... Coast Guard to Army would be better. Coast Guard is only deployed to US and US Territories and is not trained as extensively nor sees action even half as much.
That said, the Army generally has better training and equipment but isn't an "elite" force. There are groups and subdivisions within the Army that are elite (Green Berets, Rangers, etc) but the bulk force is just that, bulk.
It was more my intention to make clear that the Stormtrooper Corps is not part of the regular Imperial Army, but a separate force.
And you are right that the Army is not generally worse than the Marines and I was not really my intention to say so, but Marine units have been deployed as kind of elite shock troops in the past (for example Recon Marines during the Iraq invasion), which is similar to the role of the Stormtroopers.
But of course both in the Stormtrooper and the Marine Corps there are many different units which still differ in combat role, equipment and so on.
And I would not compare the Imperial Army to the coast guard, because the IA is sometimes used as offensive force, but only if there are no or not enough Stormtrooper units available, or to support the Stormies when necessary.
And I think the ST corps doesn't have any heavy vehicles, so any armor support would be part of the Army as well.
But of course in the Imperial Remnant everything is kinda more mixed together, with different Moff warlords that reorganize their forces more to their liking.
That is not true the coast guard is sent in before every one else now and see far more action then the regular army now I know its weird to send in the reserves first but that is just how it is now lol.
My cousin is in the Coast Guard and he is NEVER sent to front lines. The way he describes it is that they basically protect the ports and other coastal areas of US territory/bases/etc so that the regular trooper have a guaranteed way in and out (and their supplies too!).
Obviously the enemy knows how important that is so if they are bold enough, an attack on these areas could do some serious damage...so I'm not saying they never see action or whatever but they aren't exactly on the front lines either. Their job is critical and vital to the success of other operations...it's just not quite the same is the soldiers in the trenches, so to speak.
But that's only one account from my cousin so maybe there are other units that perform vastly different jobs than his and the ones he knows about.
To be completely honest as soon as they stopped making fett clones and stopped giving them good training and starting taking enlisted troops and random clone templates the entire imperial army went to hell. The republic army was far superior in just about every way.
Thats true, however the Stormtroopers were still superior to the Imperial Army troopers in any way.
But yeah, after all the GAR is mostly considered the best non-force-user fighting force in all of Star Wars, even over the Mandalorians back in the old days.
It didn't go to hell but it certainly wasn't what it was. Stormtroopers were and are a force to be reckoned with but at the time of the Clone Wars, there was none better...even among the ranks of the Mandalorians (as much as it pains me to say it).
Well, the Clones were at least of Mandalorian descent and some of the Commandos were tought the way of the Mando'ade, so it's not really a shame to our pride culture. ;)
*proud lol
Stock Storm Troopers are supposed to be galactic bad ***** though. There seems to be a lot of contradiction in Star Wars lore about them. The armor they wore were offshoots of the phase II armor from the clone wars and were supposedly ballistic resistant. While it was less effective against blasters it supposedly could disperse or block lower energy blaster fire and was supposed to be more effective against the environment. Even so they were still supposed to be equipped with better weapons and armor than the average soldier and be trained to a higher degree than the average soldier.
If you are familiar with the Halo universe at all... It's kinda like the difference between Spartan II's and S3's. While both are very effective soldiers, the Spartan II's are superior in every way with better overall armor and better training. Spartan III's are generally armed with better weapons but that's only because the technology has progressed (and so, any remaining S2's were therefore also armed with that same weaponry).
That's the difference between Clone and Storm troopers. The difference between Imperial Army Troopers and Storm Troopers is not the same is between Spartans and Marines though! The analogy fails at that point... Again, I feel that is closer to my real-world comparison above.
I guess overall there is some room for interpretation because of so many different conflicting information about actual fighting prowess. And the movies didn't touch the whole Stormtrooper Corps/Imperial Army subject at all, so we are only talking about EU stuff anyway.
Fanboy discussion ended, time to do something useful lol
One does not simply /end a fanboy discussion!! Haha :)
Yeah, I agree though... 'Nuff about fake stuff, it's all speculation and opinion anyway.
I'll agree to disagree, I'm probably am blinded by fandom anyway.
Wow really nice some of the best trooper skins I have seen yet. Also are you going to re-skin all the mandalorian units to match the same quality as the imperial and new republic troops.
Absolutely! This is a mod about the Mandos, after all. I've got some pretty cool ideas on how I want them to look as well. I'm doing imperials first because they are easy (grey and boxy...) but I plan to put special care into how I go about creating all Mandalorian units.
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You sir are a artisan of the mods! hahaha look at them i love it! A++++ and as always voted your for mod of the year even your other mod the halo one you deserve it farseer :D
Thank you! I know I haven't released anything but I am really hoping to place in Mod of the Year. I've put a lot of work into these recent models/textures/etc and it would make my day to see my mod in the top 100 list :)
This mod has done the most justice to the Empire out of any I've ever seen. So thank you sir, hats off to you.
My pleasure
Just awesome. You even made Snow-Novatroopers! Or Nova-Snowtroopers?
Screw it, you know what I mean.
Also voted for MOTY.
Snovatropper ;) And thank you very much.
Wow. Nova troopers and TC Snowtroopers look fantastic.
actually, the blue ones are 501st Legion, not team color ;) Glad you like though.
Farseer is the 501st still only gonna be available as a hero unit or with they be build able now?
Doesn't make sense to make the 501st a buildable unit; they aren't stock/common troopers, they are elite.
I think it would be great if you could build small amount of 501st detachments, like 4 or something and on specific planets like carida, kamino or wayland?
I'm i the only one that got a little boner when i saw this?..
No? okay good
Fantastic....
Impressive, btw I voted for you to be Mod of the year!
Thank you!
Vod, this is an amazing mod, you guys made a lot of us 501st and Mandalorian Mercs members impressed.